Pritha

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Pritha
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Filistatidae
Subfamily: Prithinae
Genus: Pritha
Lehtinen, 1967
Diversity
22 species
Species

See text.


Pritha is a genus of spiders, in the family Filistatidae (crevice weavers). Most of its 22 described species are found in Asia, from Israel to China and the Philippines. Several species occur in the Mediterranean, and one species is found on New Guinea.

[edit] Species

  • Pritha albimaculata (O. P.-Cambridge, 1872) (Israel)
  • Pritha ampulla Wang, 1987 (China)
  • Pritha bakeri (Berland, 1938) (New Hebrides)
  • Pritha beijingensis Song, 1986 (China)
  • Pritha condita (O. P.-Cambridge, 1873) (Azores, St. Helena)
  • Pritha crosbyi (Spassky, 1938) (Central Asia)
  • Pritha dharmakumarsinhjii Patel, 1978 (India)
  • Pritha garciai (Simon, 1892) (Philippines)
  • Pritha hasselti (Simon, 1906) (Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi)
  • Pritha heikkii Saaristo, 1978 (Seychelles)
  • Pritha insularis (Thorell, 1881) (Nicobar Is.)
  • Pritha lindbergi (Roewer, 1962) (Afghanistan)
  • Pritha littoralis (Roewer, 1938) (New Guinea)
  • Pritha nana (Simon, 1868) (Mediterranean)
  • Pritha nicobarensis (Tikader, 1977) (Andaman Is., Nicobar Is.)
  • Pritha pallida (Kulczynski, 1897) (Mediterranean)
  • Pritha poonaensis (Tikader, 1963) (India)
  • Pritha sechellana Benoit, 1978 (Seychelles)
  • Pritha spinula Wang, 1987 (China)
  • Pritha sundaica (Kulczynski, 1908) (Java)
  • Pritha tenuispina (Strand, 1914) (Israel)
  • Pritha zebrata (Thorell, 1895) (Myanmar)


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